eager - Story 37949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingertips danced across the keys. She had found the USB drive tucked inside the desk drawer. It was labelled "Project: Us." She plugged it into the laptop.

A novel. A thrilling, funny, and deeply personal novel. It described their shared experiences with a startling honesty. Sarah's breath quickened. The words resonated with her, each phrase a confirmation of something that she had always known.

She re-read her favourite lines. She wanted to dance. She wanted to sing. She wanted to yell. She was almost vibrating with anticipation.

She had to finish it now. She had to tell him. She had to share it with the world.

Emotion: eager

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 2.98 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.02

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion eager. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 eager stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the eager emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the eager vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.659
`excitedly`	0.436
`!`	0.389
`!"`	0.386
`ecstatic`	0.383

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.816
`ness`	-0.441
`😞`	-0.387
`L`	-0.379
`P`	-0.376